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Guest blogger 13-year old Fae has given us her opinion on Tyler and His Solve-a-matic Machine, by Jennifer Bouani. This book is part of the “Future Business Leaders’ Series.

Synopsis:  In the magical city of Nessibus, Tyler, dreams of sailing around the world. Without a father and mother, he has no idea how he will ever make this dream come true. That is until the Great Spirit of the Entrepreneurs, calls him to invent a great machine to help him do his homework and create a business to make many of these machines for his friends.

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Fae’s opinion:

I liked Tyler and His Solve-a-matic Machine, and I think it was a great way to get young kids interested in business.  I think it’s suited towards the 9-11 age group, who are old enough to understand the words, but young enough to be entertained by the wild story.  This story uses many words that very young children won’t understand, and concepts too complicated for them.  I still found the story light and fun, a bubbly sort of story that made me smile.

Tyler and His Solve-a-matic Machine has many funny and creative characters that help the main character, Tyler, on his quest to become an entrepreneur.  The characters are kept fun, but believable–if there is such a thing as unbelievable to a 9 year old!  Tyler wants to sail around the world, and invents a machine that he wants to sell to get him the money for it.  Tyler meets characters such as Soté, the one who starts him on his journey, and Giselle, a young girl like Tyler who keeps his spirits up and help him along whenever she can.  Tyler builds friendships along with his entrepreneur skills, something I found interesting.

I think that the best part of this book was that it teaches children about businesses and entrepeneurs.  The author included many clever metaphors that explained real life things that an entrepreneur would have to know about.  Copyrighting, for example, was personified by the “pirate parrots.”  There are very real lessons to be learned from this book.  I am looking forward to reading the next installment in this series!